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Backup Plus is the family of external drives from Seagate that lets you do more with photos and movies, protect everything in your digital life, and manage it all from a single, intuitive dashboard.

Choose from two easy backup options for what's important to you.

Share multiple media files on networks like Facebook and Flickr.

Save the photos you've shared online automatically.

Upgrade your connection in a snap with swappable upgrade adapters.

Videos

Protect...
Photos, Videos, and More - Automatically

Life is full of amazing moments you want to remember forever. The Backup Plus desktop drive lets you set up easy automatic backups of all your stuff, so you know that even if "life happens" to your computer, your memories are always protected.

Save...
Your Social Life with a Click

Think of how many photos you've shared on Facebook or Flickr. With Backup Plus, you can easily download them right to your Backup Plus drive, so even more of your life is safe and sound.

Share...
Your Favorite Moments Instantly

With Backup Plus, your memories aren't "trapped" in your drive. Just a click lets you share photos and videos to Facebook, Flickr, or YouTube right from your Backup Plus drive.

Upgrade...
Your Connectivity in a Snap

Get a new computer with Thunderbolt™ technology or FireWire 800? Not a problem. Changing your data connectivity is as easy as plugging in a new adapter.* So when you upgrade, your Backup Plus can upgrade right along with you.
*Additional adapters sold separately.

Works with PCs and Macs

Use it interchangeably on your PC or your Mac computer without reformatting.

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WarrantyBeyond any applicable Newegg return policy, this item is warranted independently by the product's Manufacturer or a Third party. Below is a summary provided for convenience only and may not be accurate or current.
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Rating: 1/5Seagate Backup Plus 3TB Prone To Failure

Cons: I have had two Seagate 3TB external drives fail within two months. I bought both from Newegg in November 2012. The problems started when I changed computers, attaching them to a new Dell Windows 7 desktop some two months ago. Maybe the movement was too much but now both hard drives are busted. Using Active@File Recovery software, I managed to transfer most of the data to Seagate 2TB slim USB powered external hard drives. Hopefully these new drives don't conk out after just over two years. I will never buy a Seagate with an odd number of platters again. The new Seagate 2TB slim drives are apparently Samsungs.

Rating: 3/5Failed Right as Warranty Ended

Pros: Fast & Reliable (up until the day it failed)Large storage capacitySmall container.

Cons: The drive failed as soon as the 2 year Seagate warranty was over.

Other Thoughts: Leading up to the drive failing, there were no warning signs. It was working great one morning and by the evening read / writes were no longer functioning.

All recovery attempts failed. The data simply could no longer be read and the drive was phasing in and out of being recognized by the OS.

The drive lasted a good 2 years which is about the lifetime I've come to expect from bargain price electronics. It's a shame that I was not able to recover any of the data, but in this day and age most important things are backed up online anyways.

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TJ83

12/22/2014 9:15:46 AM

Tech Level: 5/5

Ownership: 5/5

Rating: 2/5Was great until last night

Pros: Had brought this drive a little over 2 years ago for $180. was transferring files overnight, woke up and it was off. It wouldn't turn back on again. Worked perfect for the time being, used it just to backup files. Surprise to see no dust has built up inside of it since i got it. Drive stayed on the table and never fell.

Cons: Failed

Other Thoughts: I took out the drive from the enclosed and have it to see if it was the disk drive itself or the power from the drive that died.

Other Thoughts: Reading other reviews, I feel lucky that my external drive is still going strong after 2+ years. This drive has served as a secondary storage (powererd on for about 6 hours per day average) for my home pc and has accumulated about 1.5 TB.

Sporadically accessed with only short bouts of sustained read/write. I've occasionally moved 50 to 70 GB at a time without much issue but the top of drive gets definitely warm.

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Seagate Hater

11/13/2014 11:45:22 PM

Tech Level: 5/5

Ownership: 5/5

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Rating: 1/5Finally Seagate Disappoited me

Pros: I have used this drive for 26 months and died now, out of Warranty period and now I have lost ALL DATA which was pretty discouraging. Wondering it suddenly failed without any prior problem showing. I cared it like a baby always, no scratch, no fall, no hit, no over run, never been full. The drive looks pretty new still, but failed from inside. I would try to retrieve my data some how connecting with Desktop on board with SATA cable.

Seagate SUCK! big time. My drive was never Full and it was 400+GB free all the time and at the time of death.

Seagate soldiers die at VERY YOUNG AGE, PLEASE DONT BUY SEAGATE. I would love to pay more than double the money for HDD but never expect a failure. GO WITH WD or HGST - no other Brand I trust. I wish Sandisk comes with portable drive, if I am missing

Cons: Very less life, check all 1* STAR reviews and you would see, how many people had it failed in short time.I got one desktop drive 1TB failed as well within a year.

SEAGATE SUCKS !!It is not the seagate I used to trust for many years. It has become pretty cheap and low grade brand.

Other Thoughts: I hope Seagate officials would listen my Scream!! and the other people's as well, who ended up like me

Rating: 1/5Garbage

Pros: Would be nice if it worked. USB adapter portion seems to work without the Seagate drive.

Cons: Died hard. Never worked right as backup for either Mac or PC. Failed in under 12 months. Finally gave up, took it apart - the interface works fine, it's the Seagate drive that's junk.

Other Thoughts: It was 100$+ for a USB 3.0 adapter, the Seagate drive inside is junk. Mine failed on a desk never touched with LIGHT usage in less than a year. I have decades old Western D's that still run every day. This was supposed to have been THEIR backup drive. Guess not!

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